About Life360
Life360’s mission is to maintain folks near those they love. Our category-leading cell app and Tile monitoring units empower members to guard the folks, pets, and issues they care about most with a spread of companies, together with location sharing, protected driver studies, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves roughly 83.7 million month-to-month energetic customers (MAU), as of Might 2025 throughout greater than 150 international locations.
Life360 delivers peace of thoughts and enhances on a regular basis household life with seamless coordination for all of the moments that matter, large and small. By persevering with to innovate and ship for our prospects, we’ve turn into a family identify and the must-have mobile-based membership for households (and people buddies that principally are household).
Life360 has greater than 500 (and rising!) remote-first workers. For extra info, please go to life360.com.
Life360 is a Distant First firm, which implies a distant work surroundings would be the main expertise for all workers. All positions, until in any other case specified, will be carried out remotely (throughout the US and Canada) no matter any specified location above.
About The Group
The Location Platform crew helps our mission to ship peace of thoughts and make on a regular basis household life higher by means of a best-in-class app—uniquely powered by quick, insightful, and pleasant location-forward experiences that drive lasting loyalty and ongoing engagement. We construct and keep a sturdy basis that allows us to quickly ship distinctive worth, high quality, and delight to our members. This basis consists of the exact assortment and supply of location and sensor knowledge from member units, powering each the direct app expertise and the event of modern merchandise throughout Life360. Our crew additionally repeatedly obsesses over app efficiency, rigorously measuring and bettering key metrics to make sure a persistently dependable, seamless, and performant expertise for our over 80 million members worldwide.
Concerning the Job
We’re searching for an skilled and strategic Director of Engineering to guide the Location Platform engineering crew throughout the Location Experiences group at Life360. This function is pivotal in shaping Life360’s core location expertise, foundational to our member expertise. You’ll instantly affect strategic technical selections, drive innovation, and guarantee our platform stays a market chief, delivering unparalleled worth to households worldwide. You’ll collaborate intently with cross-functional leaders, aligning engineering initiatives with overarching product and organizational aims. As a key chief, you’ll information the platform’s evolution, driving enhancements that empower households all over the world to remain related, protected, and knowledgeable.
For candidates based mostly within the US, the wage vary for this place is $213,500 to $313,500 USD. For candidates based mostly out of Canada, the wage vary for this place is $250,500 to $294,500 CAD. We consider a person’s background and expertise in figuring out last salary- due to this fact, base pay provided could differ significantly relying on geographic location, job-related data, expertise, and expertise. The compensation bundle consists of a variety of medical, dental, imaginative and prescient, monetary, and different advantages, in addition to fairness.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and develop engineering groups, teaching and mentoring managers and senior engineers to foster a collaborative, high-performance surroundings.
- Personal and repeatedly refine the long-term strategic imaginative and prescient for the placement platform, guaranteeing it scales successfully and stays on the forefront of technological innovation.
- Develop and execute a strategic expertise roadmap that aligns with Life360’s enterprise objectives and delivers modern, dependable, and scalable options.
- Collaborate intently with Product Administration, Analytics, Design, and Infrastructure groups to outline and ship coordinated, impactful, user-centric options.
- Characterize the Location Platform engineering crew at govt management boards, clearly speaking strategic insights, progress, dangers, and alternatives.
- Oversee architectural selections, guaranteeing the platform is scalable, safe, and maintainable, supporting long-term enterprise and product development.
- Develop and execute a complete expertise technique, together with succession planning, management improvement, and strategic hiring to make sure long-term organizational well being.
- Construct and handle relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, clearly speaking technical methods, venture milestones, and outcomes.
- Proactively affect and form company-wide initiatives, requirements, and greatest practices by means of efficient advocacy, partnership, and strategic foresight.
- Champion operational excellence by establishing rigorous efficiency requirements and repeatedly monitoring and optimizing platform efficiency utilizing data-driven methodologies.
- Foster innovation, selling experimentation with new applied sciences, instruments, and approaches to take care of technical management and aggressive benefit.
- Actively contribute to the broader technical neighborhood at Life360 by staying knowledgeable about business tendencies and selling data sharing and greatest practices throughout groups.
What We’re Wanting For
Primary {Qualifications}:
- Bachelor’s diploma in Pc Science, Engineering, or a associated technical area.
- 10+ years of expertise in software program engineering, with not less than 5 years in senior management roles (Senior Supervisor, Director, or equal).
- Demonstrated success in main engineering groups in fast-paced, high-growth environments, notably in platform improvement and infrastructure administration.
- Experience in cloud applied sciences (AWS, Azure, GCP), cell improvement (iOS, Android), and familiarity with real-time methods or location-based applied sciences.
Most popular {Qualifications}:
- Expertise with real-time communication protocols (gRPC, MQTT), microservices structure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Confirmed observe file of efficiently main complicated cross-functional initiatives and strategic initiatives.
- Sturdy analytical and problem-solving expertise, emphasizing data-driven decision-making and steady enchancment.
- Distinctive collaboration and communication expertise, with the power to obviously articulate complicated technical methods to numerous stakeholders.
- Dedication to operational excellence, innovation, and steady studying.
- Alignment with Life360’s core values, together with integrity, respectful directness, member-centricity, and reaching high-impact outcomes.
Our Advantages
- Aggressive pay and advantages.
- Medical, dental, imaginative and prescient, life and incapacity insurance coverage (100% paid for US workers). We provide supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian workers.
- 401(ok) plan with firm matching program within the US and RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian workers.
- Worker Help Program (EAP) for psychological wellness.
- Versatile PTO and 12 firm broad days off all year long.
- Studying & Improvement applications.
- Tools, instruments, and reimbursement assist for a productive distant surroundings.
- Free Life360 Platinum Membership on your most well-liked circle.
Life360 Values
Our firm’s mission pushed tradition is guided by our shared values to create a trusted work surroundings the place you possibly can deliver your genuine self to work and make a constructive distinction
- Be a Good Individual – We’ve got a crew of excessive integrity folks you possibly can belief.
- Be Direct With Respect – We talk instantly, even when it’s laborious.
- Members Earlier than Metrics – We deal with constructing an distinctive expertise for households.
- Excessive Depth Excessive Affect – We do no matter it takes to get the job performed.
Our Dedication to Range
We imagine that completely different concepts, views and backgrounds create a stronger and extra inventive work surroundings that delivers higher outcomes. Collectively, we proceed to construct an inclusive tradition that encourages, helps, and celebrates the varied voices of our workers. It fuels our innovation and connects us nearer to our prospects and the communities we serve. We try to create a office that displays the communities we serve and the place everybody feels empowered to deliver their genuine greatest selves to work.
We’re an equal alternative employer and worth range at Life360. We don’t discriminate on the idea of race, faith, shade, nationwide origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital standing, veteran standing, incapacity standing or any legally protected standing.
We encourage folks of all backgrounds to use. We imagine {that a} range of views and experiences create a basis for the most effective concepts. Come be part of us in constructing one thing significant. Even should you don’t meet 100% of the beneath {qualifications}, it’s best to nonetheless severely think about making use of!
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